# ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/ml-research-engineer-safeguards-anthropic-9fff43ff ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards at Anthropic, an on-site role based in San Francisco, New York, USA. Experience level: 4+ Years. Pay stated in the posting: $350,000 to $500,000. Posted on 9 October 2025, read from Anthropic's own careers page (Greenhouse), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. The posting says the employer sponsors visas or will consider it. Anthropic has approved H-1B petitions on USCIS record (employer-wide, not a promise for this role). Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [Anthropic](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/anthropic) - Location: San Francisco, New York, USA - Work mode: On-site - Pay stated in the posting: $350,000 to $500,000 - Posted: Oct 9, 2025 - Employment type: Full time - Experience level: 4+ Years - Source: Anthropic's careers page (Greenhouse), re-checked daily Skills: [Python](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/python) ## Visa sponsorship The posting says the employer sponsors visas or will consider it. Confirm with the employer before you apply. Anthropic had H-1B petitions approved for 189 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. [See the record](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/anthropic#h1b-record) ## About this role About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role We are looking for ML Engineers and Research Engineers to help detect and mitigate misuse of our AI systems. As a member of the Safeguards ML team, you will build systems that identify harmful use - from individual policy violations to sophisticated, coordinated attacks - and develop defenses that keep our products safe as capabilities advance. You will also work on systems that protect user wellbeing and ensure our models behave appropriately across a wide range of contexts. This work feeds directly into Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy commitments. Responsibilities • Develop classifiers to detect misuse and anomalous behavior at scale. This includes developing synthetic data pipelines for training classifiers and methods to automatically source representative evaluations to iterate on • Build systems to monitor for harms that span multiple exchanges, such as coordinated cyber attacks and influence operations, and develop new methods for aggregating and analyzing signals across contexts • Evaluate and improve the safety of agentic products - developing both threat models and environments to test for agentic risks, and developing and deploying mitigations for prompt injection attacks • Conduct research on automated red-teaming, adversarial robustness, and other research that helps test for or find misuse You may be a good fit if you • Have 4+ years of experience in ML engineering, research engineering, or applied research, in academia or industry • Have proficiency in Python and experience building ML systems • Are comfortable working across the research-to-deployment pipeline, from exploratory experiments to production systems • Are worried about misuse risks of AI systems, and want to work to mitigate them • Have strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders Strong candidates may also have experience with • Language modeling and transformers • Building classifiers, anomaly detection systems, or behavioral ML • Adversarial machine learning or red-teaming • Interpretability or probes • Reinforcement learning • High-performance, large-scale ML systems The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $350,000 - $500,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links - visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings. How we're different We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact - advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI - rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As suc Description from Anthropic's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. 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